BERRY
                          by Sandy Clunies
                            05 March 1990

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Although New Hampshire was not a state until post 1775 - it was a  
separate province in the 1600's.  The BERRY family was of Rye, NH  
rather than Essex County, MA. Noyes,Libby,Davis' "Gen. Dict. of ME &  
NH" (which would really be an excellent addition to your home library  
with all your early colonial NH families) states little is known of  
this family.

William BERRY was in Strawberry Bank by 1636, sold land there 1648,  
bought land at Sandy Beach same year. This is the little stretch of  
seacoast of which NH is proud - just 20 miles long - and many folks  
forget that NH does have seacoast! [BTW, it's a political hot potato  
there right now, with protests against the Seabrook nuclear power 
plant  recently approved to open there].

William's wife Jane (no maiden name known) was granted adm. on his  
estate 28 June 1654. She m. 2) Nathaniel DRAKE (I'm also of that  
family). She claimed she was age 67 in 1686, which gives her a  
birthdate of c.1619.

There were several other early BERRY families in ME & NH, apparently  
unrelated to William and Jane BERRY.

I did not include a BERRY family group sheet in the package mailed  
today, but will do so later, if you need it.

I plan to include this area in either my May or October trips to New  
England. Did visit the Lane Library in Hampton in 1988 for my many  
families there, but did not expand it  at that time for the rest of 
the  coastal NH area (Portsmouth, Rye, etc.).  When I was a teenager 
in MA,  there was an aging amusement park in Rye Beach NH that we used 
to visit.

Date:   Tue Sep 24 1991  16:40:00
From:   Cyndi Pote
To:     Gary Prescott
Subj:   Re: BERRY
Attr:   
genealogy                      -------------------------------
If your Mary Berry is the daughter of William Berry and Sarah Lane (and her 
age and location are right), the following is her genealogy:
 
William Berry b. 11-18-1693, m. Sarah Lane (daughter of William) 
12-21-1721. Sarah d. 1-3-1776.
 
William Berry b. cir. 1653, d. bet. 1704-1708, m. Judith Locke (daughter of 
Nathaniel Locke and Judith Hermins) on 7-8-1678. She m. 2nd Nathaniel 
Huggins in 1708. 8 children.
 
William Berry b. cir. 1610 England, d. cir 1654 Rye, NH, m. Jane ?, b. 
1619, d. aft. 1686, m. 2nd Nathaniel Drake. 7 children.
 
William Berry III is the 1st cousin, twice removed of Elizabeth Berry who 
married Jeremiah Pote, a brother of my husband's ancestor Gamaliel Pote. My 
sources for the Berry information are:
 
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Sybil Noyes et al.
Old Kittery [ME] and Her Families, Everett S. Stackpole, 1981
The Maine Genealogist and Biographer, Wm. Berry Lapham, Ed., 1876-7
 
How does Mary Berry connect to your line? We might be related!
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